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| Scroll down the website to read much more news on One Click or go to the News Archives * IDSA Lyme Guidelines Seriously Flawed Citing conflict of interest, bias, refusal to consider existence of chronic Lyme, blocking appointment of scientists and physicians with divergent views, fraudulent inter-group corroboration and links with drugs companies, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that his antitrust investigation has uncovered serious flaws in the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) process in its 2006 Lyme Guidelines. “The IDSA’s 2006 Lyme disease guideline panel undercut its credibility by allowing individuals with financial interests -- in drug companies, Lyme disease diagnostic tests, patents and consulting arrangements with insurance companies -- to exclude divergent medical evidence and opinion," he said. The scandal is major. The Attorney General's Office * Unprecedented Adverse Child Vaccine Reports An unprecedented number of U.S. youngsters are fainting after getting shots, especially teenage girls. Some of the patients hit their heads on the floor and at least one had a car accident. One 15-year-old boy died after hitting his head. "A girl aged 13 years fainted within 10 minutes of receiving HPV and MCV4 (meningitis) vaccinations," the CDC report reads. "She fell backward and hit her head on the carpeted floor of the clinic." She fractured her skull and had bleeding on the brain but recovered. Maggie Fox, Reuters * Tracking & Forcing Vaccines: Parents Want Choices Why is the most highly vaccinated population in the world so sick? Educated health consumers, including informed parents, are taking matters into their own hands. They are choosing healthy lifestyles and wise health care alternatives that do not rely on constant pharmaceutical product use, including using too many vaccines. Upcoming events promoting informed health care choices published. Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center * MPs Referendum on ME Research A Referendum on Research into M.E. has been despatched to all UK Members of Parliament by RiME- Campaigning for Research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. This asks whether or not MPs think the UK Government should be funding research into the underlying physical causes and disease process of the neurological illness. We are canvassing MPs' opinions on the subject and would be grateful if they would fill out the questionnaire that they are shortly about to receive. Paul Humm, RiME * Delayed CDC Toxic Report Stirs Further Controversy After researching the question for seven years, a U.S. government agency said Wednesday it cannot draw broad conclusions about how industrial pollution in the Great Lakes region has affected human health. "The fact that this report was delayed for almost a year raises serious questions about whether this is another example of the administration suppressing science for political purposes," said U.S. Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat. Earlier drafts noted elevated levels of cancer, premature births and other health concerns in counties where some heavily tainted sites are located. The new version removes some material senior agency scientists decided was irrelevant or misleading - including the countrywide health statistics. The Canadian Press Editorial * Merck Vaccine Plant Violates Safety Standards Vaccine manufacturing rules are not being followed at Merck's plant in West Point, Pa., just outside Philadelphia. The plant makes a number of children's vaccines, as well as Gardasil. Last year, it recalled 1.2 million vaccine doses because of a sterility problem. Unless Merck fixes the problems, the plant could have its manufacturing license suspended and products seized, the FDA warns. Linda A Johnson, Associated Press Information Provided: * Baby Dies After MMR Jab - Verdict "Natural Causes" * More Babies Dead After Measles Vaccination * Baby Death Toll From Measles Vaccine Rises * Contaminated Child Vaccines Found At Merck Plant * UMC Passes Global Anti-Mercury Vaccines Resolution With passage of a historic resolution today at its 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church has become the first faith community to officially oppose the use of mercury, in any form, including Thimerosal, in medicines, especially vaccines. This faith-based resolution, passed April 29, 2008, is a challenge to the current acceptance of mercury in medicine by the U.S. Government, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the vaccine manufacturers. The United Methodist Church, Global Resolution Press Release * Corrupt FDA Official Promotes Off-Label Psych Drugs Use The Alliance for Human Research Protection has located at least three (apparently) ghostwritten articles to which the name of Dr. Thomas Laughren, director of the FDA's Division of Psychiatry Products, CDER, is penned. Dr. Laughren has lent his name repeatedly to industry-sponsored reports promoting a commercially-driven public health policy aimed at increasing the use of highly toxic drugs that now carry Black Box warnings about risks of suicidal behavior (SSRIs) and premature death (antipsychotics). In Dr. Laughren's case, the issue is especially egregious since he has wielded pivotal authority in approving these drugs and in determining what their official label disclosed. Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP * FDA Culpable In Promoting Deadly Blood The FDA knew, at least since 2000 that the evidence consistently showed that all blood substitute products tested in human beings since 1980 increased risk of deaths and heart attacks. Yet FDA officials approved five additional human trials, including a 2004 Northfield Lab --PolyHeme study involving 714 patients in which 11 patients receiving an artificial blood had heart attacks and 47 patients died. Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP * Eli Lily Admits Strattera Drug Causes Psychotic Reactions After two years of foot dragging, the medical authorities in Europe have finally decided that Eli Lilly should issue warnings about psychotic reactions in the label for Strattera. The regulatory agency concluded: “The reviews of homicidal behaviours as well of aggression and hostility suggest that a causal relationship between atomoxetine [Strattera] and physical, verbal and written aggressive behaviours, sometimes of a severe nature, is possible.” (MHRA March 30, 2008). This conclusion has not yet led to any action from the agency – but parents and doctors should absolutely know that this causal relationship has been shown. Janne Larsson, Trans World News * Codex - Scott C Tips From The NHF In Beijing As the National Health Federation has stressed for decades, the artificial sweeteners Aspartame, Neotame, and Sucralose are dangerous food additives that have been shown to harm health. All three have caused adverse events in consumers and are best avoided. Yet, this Committee has seen fit to advance these three substances along the path to approval. Once approved as Codex food additives, these artificial sweeteners would then be legally adoptable virtually worldwide. Although NHF came to this meeting in Beijing primarily to address the artificial-sweetener issues, we may have our greatest impact in helping to remove aluminum from the food-additive list - not at this meeting, but sometime during the next one or two sessions. Scott C Tips, National Health Federation Press Release * Leaders Against Pain Scholarship Programme The National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA) will be selecting up to 75 support group leaders from around the world to receive the NFA's LAP IV Scholarship. Successful candidates will be awarded a scholarship to attend the NFA's 4th Annual Leaders Against Pain Media, Advocacy and Leadership Training Seminar. We are seeking your assistance in spreading the word about this great program and identifying potential leaders/advocates to participate in our International Leaders Against Pain seminar. April Quinn, National Fibromyalgia Association Press Release * One Click Stats - 30 April 2008 We provide our readers with the top fifteen documents read/downloaded by thousands of people from all over the globe during April 2008. From academic papers, articles, case histories, legal issues, government documents, video links and more besides, we carry a great deal of information that grows every day. Romping up the ranks this April and one of the most popular documents of all time is Hannah Poling Autism-Vaccine Case: Implications for ME/CFS labelled patients. Hot on its heels this month is Lies Exposed At The UK MMR Vaccine Trial Court: Dr Richard Horton of The Lancet, Journalist Complainant Brian Deer. The One Click Group * Nassau County Investigating Vaccines Autism Link Nassau County officials are looking at a potential link between children, vaccines and autism. John Gilmore of Autism United says new research has indicated the link with a federal court having ruled in favor of a 9 year old girl who began exhibiting autism symptoms immediately after receiving immunizations. Disabled children are abandoned by the state programs when they hit 21 years of age. Eyewitness News, WABC-TV/DT * Human Rights & The English Family Justice System Paul Rowen, Lib Dem MP for Rochdale, has tabled a motion seeking a resolution from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on human rights in the English family justice system. The motion states that "The Assembly notes that there is substantial concern that the secrecy of the Family Division of Courts in England and Wales has caused the development of an environment in which practitioners are not properly accountable." Family Law Week * ALL Blood Substitutes Result In Increased Deaths A meta-analysis of the data from all clinical trials testing artificial blood products just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) confirms and quantifies the unsustainable lethal risks of ALL artificial blood products tested in humans. The FDA is very much complicit in having helped manufacturers conceal the findings for years from the medical community and the public-while continuing to approve one after another HBBS trials with similar dire results. Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP * Justice For Sophia - New Website Launched In June 2003 a warrant was granted through Brighton Magistrates Court that resulted in the sectioning of my daughter, Sophia Mirza, because she would not accept psychiatric treatment for her physical condition, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). My daughter never recovered from the shock of this incarceration and died in November 2005. The coroner's verdict recorded that she died of CFS/ME. I hope that the doctors and social workers involved in my daughter's care will now reflect on what they did and learn from their mistakes and intransigence. I hope that other professionals will also learn lessons from what I have published and that no other person with ME will be treated so callously. Criona Wilson, Sophia's Mum * Agrobacterium In Morgellons Disease The association of Morgellons Disease with dirt and soil where Agrobacterium lives, the widespread use of Agrobacterium in genetic engineering of plants, and the ability of Agrobacterium to infect human cells, all point towards a possible role of genetic engineering in the aetiology of Morgellons disease via Agrobacterium. The Morgellons Research Foundation’s registry of more than 12,000 families afflicted worldwide is almost certainly only a fraction of the emerging epidemic. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Professor Joe Cummins, Press Release, Institute of Science in Society * Measles Vaccine Scandal - Five Babies Now Dead Five infants, four in Tiruvallur district and another in Dharmapuri district died after being administered measles vaccination, leading to the suspension of the measles vaccination programme in the state. The Tamil Nadu government today said AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa's charge that it procured inferior quality measles vaccine was false as the vaccine stocks were provided by the Central government. Press Trust Of India Information Provided: * Baby Dies After MMR Jab - Verdict "Natural Causes" * More Babies Dead After Measles Vaccination * Baby Death Toll From Measles Vaccine Rises * Contaminated Child Vaccines Found At Merck Plant * UK Lid Lifts On Vaccines And Autism The UK Government has been slammed by a North expert for refusing to fund research into possible links between autism and vaccines when it is top of the agenda for US presidential candidates. Paul Shattock, head of Sunderland University’s Autism Research Unit, said: “It is time the British Government investigated this issue properly. This means the Government will have talk to other experts and not just their friends in the drug companies who have a vested interest. The problem is that when research is controlled by people who have a vested interest in the subject the study could be seriously flawed." The autism/vaccine crisis has forced the US Government to examine whether they are vaccinating children too early. Phil Doherty, The Sunday Sun Information Provided:  * The Next Vaccine-Autism Newsmaker: Not Isolated, Not Unusual David Kirby, The Huffington Post/Spectrum Magazine * Vaccines - Brain Damage/Disorder What the medical profession is loath to admit is that there is more of a link between these disorders and the introduction of mass vaccination programmes than just a temporal one. That profession will admit that vaccines can cause fullblown encephalitis/encephalopathy (they trigger inflammation by their very nature), but they are strategically silent as regards to subclinical brain damage/disorder. Strategically, out of fear of what the admittance of a larger downside to vaccines than what the authorities will officially own up to will do to vaccine uptake levels. That fear continues to let unsafe vaccines fill the market. That is not best practice. That is cover-up, pure and simple. Stan Stanfield, The Herald, Scotland Information Provided: * Lies Exposed At The UK MMR Vaccine Trial Court: Dr Richard Horton of The Lancet, Journalist Complainant Brian Deer By Jane Bryant * Demented Arguments From Journalists, Silenced Witnesses, Written by The Parents, Preface, By Rosemary Fox MBE * Seismic Vaccines Shift On Autism Debate, By Dr Jon Poling, Atlanta Journal Constitution Scroll down the website to read much more news on One Click or go to the News Archives The One Click Group |
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| IDSA Lyme Guidelines Seriously Flawed | ||
| Norwalk Plus Magazine Attorney General's investigation reveals flawed Lyme disease guideline process By Attorney General's office Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced that his antitrust investigation has uncovered serious flaws in the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) process for writing its 2006 Lyme disease guidelines and the IDSA has agreed to reassess them with the assistance of an outside arbiter. The IDSA guidelines have sweeping and significant impacts on Lyme disease medical care. They are commonly applied by insurance companies in restricting coverage for long-term antibiotic treatment or other medical care and also strongly influence physician treatment decisions. Insurance companies have denied coverage for long-term antibiotic treatment relying on these guidelines as justification. The guidelines are also widely cited for conclusions that chronic Lyme disease is nonexistent. “This agreement vindicates my investigation -- finding undisclosed financial interests and forcing a reassessment of IDSA guidelines,” Blumenthal said. “My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful IDSA panelists. The IDSA’s guideline panel improperly ignored or minimized consideration of alternative medical opinion and evidence regarding chronic Lyme disease, potentially raising serious questions about whether the recommendations reflected all relevant science. “The IDSA’s Lyme guideline process lacked important procedural safeguards requiring complete reevaluation of the 2006 Lyme disease guidelines -- in effect a comprehensive reassessment through a new panel. The new panel will accept and analyze all evidence, including divergent opinion. An independent neutral ombudsman -- expert in medical ethics and conflicts of interest, selected by both the IDSA and my office -- will assess the new panel for conflicts of interests and ensure its integrity.” Blumenthal’s findings include the following: • The IDSA failed to conduct a conflicts of interest review for any of the panelists prior to their appointment to the 2006 Lyme disease guideline panel; • Subsequent disclosures demonstrate that several of the 2006 Lyme disease panelists had conflicts of interest; • The IDSA failed to follow its own procedures for appointing the 2006 panel chairman and members, enabling the chairman, who held a bias regarding the existence of chronic Lyme, to handpick a likeminded panel without scrutiny by or formal approval of the IDSA’s oversight committee; • The IDSA’s 2000 and 2006 Lyme disease panels refused to accept or meaningfully consider information regarding the existence of chronic Lyme disease, once removing a panelist from the 2000 panel who dissented from the group’s position on chronic Lyme disease to achieve “consensus”; • The IDSA blocked appointment of scientists and physicians with divergent views on chronic Lyme who sought to serve on the 2006 guidelines panel by informing them that the panel was fully staffed, even though it was later expanded; • The IDSA portrayed another medical association’s Lyme disease guidelines as corroborating its own when it knew that the two panels shared several authors, including the chairmen of both groups, and were working on guidelines at the same time. In allowing its panelists to serve on both groups at the same time, IDSA violated its own conflicts of interest policy. IDSA has reached an agreement with Blumenthal’s office calling for creation of a review panel to thoroughly scrutinize the 2006 Lyme disease guidelines and update or revise them if necessary. The panel -- comprised of individuals without conflicts of interest -- will comprehensively review medical and scientific evidence and hold a scientific hearing to provide a forum for additional evidence. It will then determine whether each recommendation in the 2006 Lyme disease guidelines is justified by the evidence or needs revision or updating. Blumenthal added, “The IDSA’s 2006 Lyme disease guideline panel undercut its credibility by allowing individuals with financial interests -- in drug companies, Lyme disease diagnostic tests, patents and consulting arrangements with insurance companies -- to exclude divergent medical evidence and opinion. In today’s healthcare system, clinical practice guidelines have tremendous influence on the marketing of medical services and products, insurance reimbursements and treatment decisions. As a result, medical societies that publish such guidelines have a legal and moral duty to use exacting safeguards and scientific standards. “Our investigation was always about the IDSA’s guidelines process -- not the science. IDSA should be recognized for its cooperation and agreement to address the serious concerns raised by my office. Our agreement with IDSA ensures that a new, conflicts-free panel will collect and review all pertinent information, reassess each recommendation and make necessary changes. “This Action Plan -- incorporating a conflicts screen by an independent neutral expert and a public hearing to receive additional evidence -- can serve as a model for all medical organizations and societies that publish medical guidelines. This review should strengthen the public’s confidence in such critical standards.” THE GUIDELINE REVIEW PROCESS Under its agreement with the Attorney General’s Office, the IDSA will create a review panel of eight to 12 members, none of whom served on the 2006 IDSA guideline panel. The IDSA must conduct an open application process and consider all applicants. The agreement calls for the ombudsman selected by Blumenthal’s office and the IDSA to ensure that the review panel and its chairperson are free of conflicts of interest. Blumenthal and IDSA agreed to appoint Dr. Howard A. Brody as the ombudsman. Dr. Brody is a recognized expert and author on medical ethics and conflicts of interest and the director of the Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Brody authored the book, “Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession and the Pharmaceutical Industry.” To assure that the review panel obtains divergent information, the panel will conduct an open scientific hearing at which it will hear scientific and medical presentations from interested parties. The agreement requires the hearing to be broadcast live to the public on the Internet via the IDSA’s website. The Attorney General’s Office, Dr. Brody and the review panel will together finalize the list of presenters at the hearing. Once it has collected information from its review and open hearing, the panel will assess the information and determine whether the data and evidence supports each of the recommendations in the 2006 Lyme disease guidelines. The panel will then vote on each recommendation in the IDSA’s 2006 Lyme disease guidelines on whether it is supported by the scientific evidence. At least 75 percent of panel members must vote to sustain each recommendation or it will be revised. Once the panel has acted on each recommendation, it will have three options: make no changes, modify the guidelines in part or replace them entirely. The panel’s final report will be published on the IDSA’s website. ADDITIONAL FINDINGS OF BLUMENTHAL’S INVESTIGATION IDSA convened panels in 2000 and 2006 to research and publish guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. Blumenthal’s office found that the IDSA disregarded a 2000 panel member who argued that chronic and persistent Lyme disease exists. The 2000 panel pressured the panelist to conform to the group consensus and removed him as an author when he refused. IDSA sought to portray a second set of Lyme disease guidelines issued by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) as independently corroborating its findings. In fact, IDSA knew that the two panels shared key members, including the respective panel chairmen and were working on both sets of guidelines a the same time -- a violation of IDSA’s conflicts of interest policy. The resulting IDSA and AAN guidelines not only reached the same conclusions regarding the non-existence of chronic Lyme disease, their reasoning at times used strikingly similar language. Both entities, for example, dubbed symptoms persisting after treatment “Post-Lyme Syndrome” and defined it the same way. When IDSA learned of the improper links between its panel and the AAN’s panel, instead of enforcing its conflict of interest policy, it aggressively sought the AAN’s endorsement to “strengthen” its guidelines’ impact. The AAN panel -- particularly members who also served on the IDSA panel -- worked equally hard to win AAN’s backing of IDSA’s conclusions. The two entities sought to portray each other’s guidelines as separate and independent when the facts call into question that contention. The IDSA subsequently cited AAN’s supposed independent corroboration of its findings as part of its attempts to defeat federal legislation to create a Lyme disease advisory committee and state legislation supporting antibiotic therapy for chronic Lyme disease. In a step that the British Medical Journal deemed “unusual,” the IDSA included in its Lyme guidelines a statement calling them “voluntary” with “the ultimate determination of their application to be made by the physician in light of each patient’s individual circumstances.” In fact, United Healthcare, Health Net, Blue Cross of California, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and other insurers have used the guidelines as justification to deny reimbursement for long-term antibiotic treatment. Blumenthal thanked members his office who worked on the investigation -- Assistant Attorney General Thomas Ryan, former Assistant Attorney General Steven Rutstein and Paralegal Lorraine Measer under the direction of Assistant Attorney General Michael Cole, Chief of the Attorney General's Antitrust Department. |
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| Unprecedented Adverse Child Vaccine Reports | ||
| Reuters More kids fainting after shots, CDC reports Fri May 2, 2008 Maggie Fox WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unprecedented number of U.S. youngsters are fainting after getting shots, especially teenage girls, and doctors need to keep an eye on them, federal health experts cautioned on Thursday. At least 463 people fainted after getting vaccinated during an 18-month period from 2005 to 2007, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Such fainting is not uncommon and not in itself dangerous -- but some of the patients hit their heads on the floor and at least one had a car accident, the CDC said in its weekly report on death and disease. One 15-year-old boy died after hitting his head. More cases may have been reported lately because of new vaccines -- notably against meningitis and the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer -- now recommended for adolescents and older children. Very young children and babies get a battery of vaccinations in the United States, but vaccinations of older children and teens were not as routine until recent years. "A girl aged 13 years fainted within 10 minutes of receiving HPV and MCV4 (meningitis) vaccinations," the CDC report reads. "She fell backward and hit her head on the carpeted floor of the clinic." She fractured her skull and had bleeding on the brain but recovered. "Providers should strongly consider observing patients for 15 minutes after they are vaccinated," the CDC recommended. (Reporting by Maggie Fox; Editing by Will Dunham and Eric Walsh) |
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| Tracking & Forcing Vaccines: Parents Want Choices | ||
| National Vaccine Information Center NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter April 30, 2008 Tracking & Forcing Vaccines: Parents Want Choices by Barbara Loe Fisher This week, CDC researchers sent out a warning that one in four child under age three in America is "not in compliance" with the CDC vaccine "recommendations" and that "missed doses" or "mistimed" doses is the cause. Some are calling for more vaccine tracking registries that will track children and their parents down to make sure every single one of the 48 doses of 14 vaccines that the CDC says kids must get has been given to every single child. The Los Angeles Times points the finger at "anti-vaccine parents" and urges the California legislature to put an end to the "personal belief" exemption so only doctors adhering to very narrow CDC guidelines for what constitutes a vaccine exemption are allowed to exempt children from vaccination. The U.S. uses more vaccines than any other country in the world and has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world for young children: 70 to 80 percent of pre-schoolers have been injected with 26 doses of 10 vaccines. That high vaccination rate rises with age to 95 percent or more for six year old children entering kindergarten. The CDC report lamenting that public health officials have been calculating the vaccine uptake among young children incorrectly comes at a time when the rate of infectious disease is way down but the rate of chronic disease and disability among highly vaccinated children is increasing: 1 in 6 child is learning disabled; 1 in 9 is asthmatic; 1 in 150 develops autism; 1 in 450 has diabetes. Today, a Gallup poll reveals that half of all Americans report they are "stuck in a cycle of chronic disease" with two thirds of U.S. workers reporting one or more chronic diseases or recurring conditions. Some want to point to "stress" and "overweight" and "smoking" as the cause for the catastrophic high rate of chronic illness among Americans of all ages. But the public health officials and medical doctors of this country have a lot to answer for and the question everyone should be asking is: Why is the most highly vaccinated population in the world so sick? Educated health consumers, including informed parents, are taking matters into their own hands. They are choosing healthy lifestyles and wise health care alternatives that do not rely on constant pharmaceutical product use, including using too many vaccines. UPCOMING EVENTS PROMOTING INFORMED HEALTH CARE CHOICES: May 8-11, 2008: The First Family Wellness Collaborative Conference and Celebration Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing 201 South Columbus Blvd. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 Tel: 215-928-1234 Speakers: Dawson Church, PhD, Barbara Loe Fisher, Stephen Marini, D.C., PhD, Jeanne Ohm, D.C., Larry Palevsky, M.D., Lisa Reagan, Nancy Warren, CPM and many more. $79 for parents and public http://www.fa milywellnessfirst.org/ May 12, 2008: Education Before Vaccination Workshop Bayport-Blue Point Public Library 203 Blue Point Avenue Blue Point, NY 11715 Speakers: Ronald Sinagra, D.C., Lawrence Palevsky, M.D., Nicholas Argo, Esq., Rita Palma, Michelle Doxsee, Physical Therapist RSVP: 631-806-2850 (leave message) Green Our Vaccines Rally  Wednesday June 4, 2008 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. Washington, D.C. ************************************************ Reuters Quarter of kids don't meet vaccine schedule April 29, 2008 by Will Dunham ABC News Immunization Rates Falling, CDC Study Finds Toddlers May Be Missing Crucial Vaccines, CDC Says April 29, 2008 by Audrey Grayson Los Angeles Times We must vaccinate kids 29 April 2008 Reuters Many Americans struggling in life, survey finds April 29,2008 by Maggie Fox _______________________________________ National Vaccine Information Center ________________________________________ email: news@nvic.org voice: 703-938-dpt3 web: http://www.nvic.org NVIC E-News is a free service of the National Vaccine Information Center and is supported through membership donations. NVIC is funded through the financial support of its members and does not receive any government subsidies. Barbara Loe Fisher, President and Co- founder. Learn more about vaccines, diseases and how to protect your informed consent rights at http://www.nvic.org National Vaccine Information Center | 204 Mill St. | Suite B1 | Vienna | VA | 22180 |
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| MPs Referendum on ME Research | ||
| Campaigning for Research into ME (RiME) Below are two letters: 1.) The Referendum on ME Research which has been sent to all 646 MPs (after the Yes and No options were two boxes for MPs to tick. I was able to print it off that way but not commit a pdf version to file or cut + paste). 2.) A supporting letter. It is preferable that people write their own letters, but please use the attached if you require assistance. Good Wishes, Paul rimexx@tiscali.co.uk Campaigning for Research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (RiME) www.erythos.com/RiME MPs Referendum on ME Research April 2008 Dear There are an estimated 240,000 people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) in Britain. Of these, one-quarter are severely affected, some to the degree that they are permanently bed-ridden, and cannot attend to basic needs; others, sadly, die. Apart from death and human suffering, there is also the matter of cost to the country. A study by Action for ME May 2006 estimated the cost at £6.4 billion per annum. The World Health Organisation lists ME as a neurological illness (ICD 10 G93.3) and the following research shows abnormalities in groups of ME patients: Muscle: Altered metabolism - Fulle et al., 2003; Vecchiet et al., 2003. Enteroviral sequences in muscle - Lane et al., 2003; Douche-Aourik et al., 2003. Abnormal response to exercise - Paul et al., 1999; McCully et al., 2004. Brain: Metabolic abnormalities - Puri et al., 2002; Chaudhuri et al., 2003. Vascular: Endothelial dysregulation - Spence et al., 2000; Khan et al., 2004. Altered brain perfusion - Costa et al., 1995; Tirelli et al., 1998. Orthostatic hypotension - Naschitz et al., 2002; Stewart et al., 20003. Biochemical: Oxidative stress - Kennedy et al., 2003; Vecchiet et al., 2003. Dysregulation of anti-viral pathways - De Meirleir et al., 2000; Tiev et al., 2003. Gene Research: The ongoing research of Dr Jonathan Kerr has found (1) that there are seven subtypes (2) evidence of different clinical symptoms and severity for each subtype. Please note that this research is either being carried out abroad or funded privately in the UK. We are canvassing MPs' opinions on the subject and would be grateful if you would fill out the questionnaire below. Yours Sincerely, ************************ MPs Referendum on Research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Yes, I think the British Government should be funding research into the underlying physical causes and disease process of ME. No, I don't think the British Government should be funding research into the underlying physical causes and disease process of ME. Signature ************************ Printed ************************ Date ************************ Please return to RiME, 10 Carters Hill Close, Mottingham, London, SE9 4RS by May 31 2008 ************************ House of Commons London SW1A OAA Dear MPs Referendum on ME Research If you haven't by now, you should shortly receive from RiME (Campaigning for Research into ME), the above document asking whether or not you think the Government should be funding research into the underlying physical causes and disease process of the neurological illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). I urge you to tick the YES box. In January 2002 the Chief Medical Officer's Report on CFS/ME recommended research into all aspects of CFS/ME, p.69: 6.5 Research A programme of research on all aspects of CFS/ME is required. Government investment in research on CFS/ME should encompass health-services research, epidemiology, behavioural and social science, clinical research and trials, and basic science. In particular, research is ungently needed to: Elucidate the aetiology and pathogenesis of CFS/ME.... Six years on the Government, to my knowledge, has not invested a penny in biomedical ME Research and I find this totally unacceptable. ME patients (and their relatives) have paid billions into the Treasury coffers over the years. I wonder if you can understand why the former are desperately disappointed that the Government has not invested part of this money in biomedical research so they have the chance to recover and take up/resume a useful position in society? Whichever choice you make, I ask you not to simply forward this letter to the Health Department. When this course has been taken, in the past, they have merely replied with the repetition of a statement which does not address the need for biomedical research but details how the Government is putting token amounts of money into psychiatric / psychological models of treatment, which have no scientific justification. I would prefer not to see another of these unhelpful responses. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours Sincerely, |
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| Delayed CDC Toxic Report Stirs Further Controversy | ||
| The Canadian Press U.S. report questions link between Great Lakes pollution, health problem May 1, 2008 TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — After researching the question for seven years, a U.S. government agency said Wednesday it cannot draw broad conclusions about how industrial pollution in the Great Lakes region has affected human health. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry called for more study - and better organization and analysis of information - so the area's citizens and governments can deal with potential dangers from environmental contaminants. The ATSDR is affiliated with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which released an updated version of a report by agency scientists about health problems in 26 highly polluted "areas of concern" around the lakes. "The major conclusion of this report is that we need better data to allow us to assess threats to human health," said Dr. Howard Frumkin, director of the CDC's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. It is impossible to know the extent of the problem from currently available information, he said. The report had been scheduled for release in July 2007 but was withheld after senior officials questioned its methodology and conclusions. The holdup drew accusations of a cover-up from members of Congress. "The fact that this report was delayed for almost a year raises serious questions about whether this is another example of the administration suppressing science for political purposes," said U.S. Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the House of Representatives' energy and commerce committee. That was not the intention, said Dr. Henry Falk, who oversees CDC research on environmental health hazards. Critics had noted problems in the report that needed fixing - particularly its use of data that might have implied unproven cause-and-effect relationships between toxins and illness in the area, he said. "We're being as open and co-operative as we can," Falk said. CDC officials have asked the Institute of Medicine, an independent scientific advisory organization, to review the report's various drafts and assess their quality. The panel's first session begins Thursday. After getting feedback from the institute and the public, the CDC will produce a final version. The study originally was requested in 2001 by the International Joint Commission, a U.S.-Canadian agency that advises the two countries on issues affecting the Great Lakes and other boundary waters. It didn't generate new data but pulled together existing information from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory and state reports on how pollution has degraded resources such as wildlife and water. Earlier drafts noted elevated levels of cancer, premature births and other health concerns in counties where some heavily tainted sites are located. But Falk said those drafts made flawed correlations between countywide health data and environmental measures drawn from areas sometimes larger or smaller than a county. The new version removes some material senior agency scientists decided was irrelevant or misleading - including the countywide health statistics - while updating or improving other data, Falk said. The only health data it includes comes from previous ATSDR assessments of about 150 hazardous-waste sites within the areas of concern. Of those, 86 were described as posing a potential problem; 47 were classified as hazards and two were labelled "urgent" hazards. But that information provides little insight on whether people were actually exposed to toxins, the report acknowledges. "For exposure to occur, there needs to be a completed pathway from a source to people's bodies," it says. "Discharge of a pollutant into a stream...does not mean that people are exposed to that pollutant, or if so, how much. Use of a chemical in a factory...does not mean that people are exposed to the chemical, or if so, to what extent." Peter Orris, a scientist who reviewed previous drafts and called for their public release, praised the updated version and endorsed its plea for further research. "We have the capability to do the environmental monitoring and the health monitoring today that would give us these answers with a good deal more confidence than the current databases provide," said Orris, professor of occupational and health sciences at the University of Illinois School of Public Health in Chicago. U.S. Representative Bart Stupak, chairman of the House energy and commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, said the panel would continue looking into the CDC's handling of the report and the deletion of the county-level data. "The revised draft begs the question of why CDC is just now seeking public comment on a watered-down third draft of a report that was commissioned seven years ago," said Stupak, a Michigan Democrat. * -CDC report posted at: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/grtlakes |
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| Merck Vaccine Plant Violates Safety Standards | ||
| Associated Press FDA warns Merck to clean up violations at vaccine plant By LINDA A. JOHNSON – 17 hours ago TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is warning drugmaker Merck & Co. to fix problems at its main vaccine plant. The agency on Wednesday released a warning letter sent to Merck's chief executive that says FDA inspectors determined manufacturing rules are not being followed at the plant in West Point, Pa., just outside Philadelphia. The plant makes a number of popular children's vaccines, as well as Gardasil, which protects against cervical cancer. Last year, it recalled 1.2 million vaccine doses because of a sterility problem. The nine-page warning letter gives Merck 15 days to tell the FDA how it will correct the violations. Otherwise, the FDA says it could suspend the plant's manufacturing license and seize products. ********************* For Further Information: * Baby Dies After MMR Jab - Verdict "Natural Causes" * Baby Death Toll From Measles Vaccine Rises * More Babies Dead After Measles Vaccination * Contaminated Child Vaccines Found At Merck Plant ********************* |
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